It was small wonder, then, that he suddenly flung down his brush on the floor, said 'Bother!' and 'O blow!' and also 'Hang spring-cleaning!' and bolted out of the house without even waiting to put on his coat.

------------ Kenneth Grahame

Friday, September 18, 2009

Visitation

If I have learned anything from this visitation, it is that I dare not be passive. There is not much time left, not really, and I must be quick and decisive. I must set all my birds into the air at once.

Always I have flown them one by one. No more. I must hold nothing back. Let them rise in a screeching cloud, and each find its way on its business as it can.